A Holy Time-Out
Sometimes, God will force a stillness on you. Stillness is critical to our relationship with God. Psalm 46:10, ESV, says, “Be still, and know that I am God.” The way to know God is to be still or “cease striving” as the term means. And we are a striving people.
Striving is what our flesh does; but stillness is what our soul craves — and God knows it.
He knows it’s critical for us to be still in His presence; spending intentional time listening to Him in His Word, because that’s the way we come to truly know our God.
In fact, if we, God’s children, don’t learn to quiet ourselves and get still in His presence, He’ll force a stillness on us … kind of like a Holy Time-out.
Look at this passage from Job 37 —
God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’
likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
He seals up the hand of every man,
that all men whom he made may know it. (Job 37:5-7, ESV)
The snowfall, the downpour of the rain … forces a stillness on us by God’s design so that we may know Him, and consider His ways, be awed by His wonders … and in so doing, we cultivate intimacy with the Almighty.
Be still (cease striving, push away the distractions), and know (get to know Him intimately, by experience), that I am God (know who He is, and that He is everything).
This article appeared originally on punkytolson.com.
